Comment Status Log

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Hi Folks,

I am wanting to create a status log for node red over MQTT where people can comment/post messages to the log. I thought this could be achieved through the form on node red however it doesnt quite achieve this.

Anyone know of a node you can install that does this? Basically acting as a status log where it records comments in the log?

Best,

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Can you describe what features you are looking for?

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MQTT only contains the last msg for each topic so you can't use it alone. Only as a message transport mechanism.

What does this mean? What form? Where/how?

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Basically a comment section on node red ui where you can upload messages and other people using the same ui can see those messages through mqtt. Status log basically.

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Yes, you can send the message then store it on the device. Therefore you could send a message such as hello and store it in a status log.

Theres a form UI on node red ui dashboard, I thought it would be attainable from this but it is not.

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You can certainly take messages from MQTT and show them on the Dashboard if that is what you mean. You can also keep a list of the last N messages very easily and have them all shown on the Dashboard.

In the dim and distant past, I created some flows that showed debug outputs or the Node-RED log on Dashboard pages. They should still be on the Flows site. I don't much use Dashboard any more and would do that kind of thing using uibuilder now if I needed to.

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